At a glance
A collection of national public health initiatives, strategies, and action plans covering topics like chronic disease, emergency preparedness, and health disparities. The material can guide the development of local plans and prioritizes public health efforts addressing the nation's health challenges.
About these resources
This section presents a collection of national public health initiatives, strategies, and action plans, categorized by health topics. These documents are crafted by expert groups and stakeholders, setting strategic priorities to tackle the most significant health challenges faced by the nation.
These resources are valuable for creating state or local plans, prioritizing public health activities, guiding funding proposals, and generating materials that align with national public health objectives.
For more details on guidelines or recommendations issued by the CDC, its federal advisory committees, or those developed in collaboration with other organizations or agencies, please visit Guidelines and Recommendations.
Alzheimer's Disease
- National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease
- Healthy Aging in Action: Advancing the National Prevention Strategy 2018
- The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health
Chronic Disease
- National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies
- National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis 2020
Cross-Cutting Topics
- 6|18 Initiative: Accelerating Evidence into Action
- Healthy People 2030
- HI-5: Health Impact in 5 Years
- National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
- CDC's Health Literacy Action Plan
- CDC's Health Literacy Site (includes action plan)
- CDC's Health Literacy Action Plan
- National Pain Strategy
- National Prevention Strategy 2011
Emergency Preparedness & Response
- Global Health Security Agenda
- National Health Security and Implementation Plan 2023-2026
- National Health Security Strategy 2023-2026
- National Pandemic Strategy
- National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan 2022
Environmental Health
- Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts
- President's Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children
- Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
Health Disparities
Health IT
Healthcare Quality
Heart Disease & Stroke
- The Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke: Ten-Year Update 2014
- Million Hearts Initiative
Immunization/Vaccination
Infectious Disease
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 2020-2025
- CDC's Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Solutions Initiative
Healthcare-Associated Infections
Hepatitis
HIV/AIDS
Influenza (Flu)
Tuberculosis
Injury & Violence Prevention (Child Safety, Highway Safety, Occupational Safety, Suicide, Violence)
- Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
- National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention 2014
- National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention 2012
- National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety
- National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety
- National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
- National Strategy for Youth Preparedness Education: Empowering, Educating and Building Resilience
- Prevention Through Design National Initiative
- Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategy on Highway Safety
Reproductive Health
- National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention, and Management of Infertility 2014
Smoking & Tobacco Use
- E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2016 (see Call to Action)
- Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services
- Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress (See Chapter 16, page 865, "A Vision for Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: Toward a Society Free of Tobacco-Caused Death and Disease")